Say hi to Leo the Drone! This enthusiastic and curious drone will fly the length and breadth of Italy, filming the postcards used between performances, before landing in the Pala Alpitour in Turin for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Mentioned in the official Media Handbook at Eurovision.tv, this year’s postcards will be a journey to discover the beautiful landscape of …
A number of this year’s competing Eurovision delegations have confirmed technical issues with the “kinetic sun” element of the stage in the PalaOlimpico in Turin, ahead of the first rehearsals beginning on Saturday morning. The stage, designed and created by design studio Atelier Francesca Montinaro, has seen a number of teething problems in stand-in rehearsals ahead of the official rehearsal …
It’s crazy to imagine that we are already preparing for rehearsals in Turin, but it’s here Eurovision fans! Earlier last month crews from all over began construction on the stage in the PalaOlimpico arena, setting up the rigging for lights, the stage floor, the green room, and more. However, in the last few days more information about the festivities across …
Italian singer and Eurovision 2020 representative Diodato will finally get his moment to shine on the Eurovision stage in Turin, as the interval act in the first semi-final on 10th May! The performer won the 2020 edition of Sanremo with “Fai rumore” and was one of the favourites to win the contest when it was cancelled in March of that …
Go_A’s lead singer, Kateryna Pavlenko, was part of a duo performing “Imagine” at last night’s Serie A football game between Juventus (based in this year’s host city of Turin) and Inter Milan, in a show of solidarity between the Italian and Ukrainian people and “to remind the whole world of the war in Ukraine”. The “Shum” performer walked onto the …
It has easily been one of the longest awaited things for the contest and finally there is a date on when they’ll be available. It has finally been announced that tickets for the contest in Turin will go on sale on the 7th of April 2022. Tickets for Turin 2022 Every year, a certain amount of tickets is being made …
Every day now, we are inching closer and closer to the upcoming song contest, and to make it feel even more closer, we’ve now even gotten the official running order confirmed for the two semi-final. Back in January, the semi-final allocation draw took place, which placed every country competing in either of the two semi-final, including the pre-qualified countries in …
Turin, 15 March 2022 A quick update concerning Italy’s entry: The annual host country draw took place this morning, during which it was decided that Italy would perform in 9th position during the Grand Final of Eurovision 2022, set to take place on 14 May. Ever since 2013, the running order of the show has been decided by the producers …
Tonight, Mahmood and Blanco won the 72nd edition of the Festival di Sanremo with their intimate ballad ‘Brividi’. Taking home the golden lion statue, they are likely to represent Italy as the host entry at Eurovision 2022. After five long and exciting nights of Sanremo, tonight’s show concluded with all 25 participants performing their competing song one final time. Tonight, the …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. Some days you feel like Bart Simpson and you’re writing “Sanremo Music Festival is not technically a Eurovision national selection for Italy” over and over again on a chalkboard. And …
